I'm writing this in the bottom of the eighthSo, when the Indians' not quite unprecedented collapse is postmortem-ed on sports talk radio, ESPN, and in the newspapers, two moments from game 7 will stand out. The first is Indians' 3rd base coach Joel Skinner's decision to hold Kenny Lofton on a fluky Franklin Gutierrez single when he could have scored from second without a throw in the top 7th. On the next play Casey Blake grounded into a double play, stranding Lofton on third and leaving the Red Sox up 3-2. The second is manager Eric Wedge's bad mojo decision to pull starter Jake Westbrook after six innings, despite the fact he had retired eight Red Sox in a row and was cruising. Reliever Rafael Betancourt promptly gave up a two-run homer to mighty mite Dustin Pedroia: 5-2 Red Sox. After Jonathan Papelbon retired three in a row with two inherited men on in the top eighth, the Sox came back to put the Tribe out of their misery in the bottom frame, with Pedroia hitting a bases-clearing 3 RBI double, and Kevin Youkilis tatooing a 2 run homer. Now we sit in the top of the 9th, 1 out, 11-2 Red Sox.
